Paris, France
Le Moulin de la Galette
Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.
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Paris, France
Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.
Noisy-le-Grand, France
This stunningly massive housing complex is a go-to filming location for dystopian sci-fi cinema.
Paris, France
Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.
Paris, France
A lush vertical garden blooming in the heart of Paris.
Paris, France
A large portion of this navigable canal runs under Paris's famed boulevards.
Paris, France
A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.
Paris, France
Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.
Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, France
Huge Russian Orthodox cemetery in danger of being converted into open public space.
Paris, France
A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.
Paris, France
The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.
Paris, France
The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.
Prague, Czechia
A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.
Prague, Czechia
What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.
Prague, Czechia
A plaque marks the spot where the saint was shoved off the Charles Bridge and into the river.
Prague, Czechia
The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.
Prague, Czechia
This walkway is so narrow it needs its own light to stop pedestrian traffic jams.
Prague, Czechia
This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.
Prague, Czechia
An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."
Kutna Hora, Czechia
An enormous and lavish Gothic church in Czechia.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Kyoto, Japan
Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.
Kyoto, Japan
The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.
Kyoto, Japan
This 14th-century temple is also known as the "Temple of the Golden Pavilion" for its gorgeous gilded reliquary hall.
Kyoto, Japan
This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.